{{Short description|British scholar and translator of Arabic literature}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Paul Starkey | image = Paul Starkey in the video '2024 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation'.png | image_upright = .9 | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | burial_place = | occupation = Academic, translator | awards = | spouse = | children = | education = Oxford University | signature = | party = }} '''Paul Starkey''' is a British scholar and translator of Arabic literature.
==Life and career== Starkey received his doctorate from Oxford University; the subject of his dissertation was the works of the Egyptian writer Tawfiq Hakim.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.arabicfiction.org/judge/10.html |title=Profile as Judge of the International Prize for Arab Fiction |access-date=2011-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203549/http://www.arabicfiction.org/judge/10.html |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is emeritus professor of the Arabic department at the University of Durham and was also co-director of the Centre for Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), a collaborative project by the Universities of Edinburgh, Durham and Manchester.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Professor PG Starkey – Durham University|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/directory/profile/?id=492|access-date=2021-09-20|publisher=Durham University}}</ref>
Starkey is the author of ''Modern Arabic Literature'' (2006), a survey of the field. He has also edited a number of books, contributed book chapters, and written essays, scholarly articles and monographs. He is a specialist on the Sixties Generation of Egyptian writers, in particular Sonallah Ibrahim and Edwar al-Kharrat.
Starkey has translated several contemporary Arabic novels, including works by Edwar al-Kharrat and Mansoura Ez-Eldin. His translations have been published in ''Banipal'' magazine and he has also served on the judging panel of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Banipal (UK) Magazine of Modern Arab Literature – Contributors – Paul Starkey|url=https://www.banipal.co.uk/contributors/contributor.cfm?contributor_id=523|access-date=2021-09-20|website=banipal.co.uk}}</ref>
==Select bibliography== ===As author=== * ''Modern Arabic Literature'' (2006)
===As editor=== * ''Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers'', 2002 (co-edited with Nadia El Kholy) * ''Interpreting the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East'', vol 2, 2001 (with Janet Starkey) * ''Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East'', 2001 (with Janet Starkey) * ''Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature'' (two volumes), 1998 (with Julie Scott Meisami) * ''Travellers in Egypt'', 1998 (with Janet Starkey)
===As translator=== * ''Dear Mr Kawabata'' by Rachid al-Daif * ''Maryam's Maze'' by Mansoura Ez-Eldin * ''Shumaisi'' by Turki Al-Hamad * ''Stones of Bobello'' by Edwar Al-Kharrat * ''We Are All Equally Far from Love'' by Adania Shibli *''The Drowning'' by Hammour Ziada * ? East Winds, West Winds by Mahdī ʻĪsá Ṣaqr. American University in Cairo Press 2010.
==See also== * List of Arabic-English translators
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